Tracey Breaks the News (2017)

Directed by

Dominic Brigstocke

Genre

comedy

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

30 min

Rating

8.2 of 10 from 4 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Tracey Ullman plays multiple characters in a sketch comedy pilot that satirizes British politics and current events. It was inspired by the 2017 general election and the Brexit referendum.

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What happens

"Pilot" is the pilot episode of the British comedy series Tracey Breaks the News, starring Tracey Ullman. The series was commissioned by the BBC for BBC One. It was thematically inspired by the aftermath of the 2017 United Kingdom general election, as well as the one-year anniversary of the Brexit referendum, and was recorded and aired shortly thereafter. The broadcast is a reformatted version of Tracey Ullman's Show. Tracey Breaks the News is the second television special Ullman has produced for British television, her first since 1993's Tracey Ullman: A Class Act, and her fifth overall. The episode aired on 23 June 2017. The success of the pilot led to a full series commission of Tracey Breaks the News. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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